The PC muscle is a part of the levator ani muscle group, which stretches from the pubic bone to the coccyx ( tailbone ), forming the floor of the pelvic cavity.
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Its rupture during vaginal birth leads to widening of the gap between the anterior free borders of levator ani muscle of both sides, thus predisposing the woman to prolapse of the urinary bladder.
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Two sutures were bilaterally passed through the perianal skin and the levator ani muscles and served to tightly and firmly support an obstetric stent, placed in the neovagina to provide support for the inverted skin flap.
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Patients with levator ani syndrome also have " significant elevations on the hypochondriasis, depression, and hysteria scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, " which is also the case in general among chronic pain sufferers.
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A commonly used protocol for determining the androgenic : anabolic ratio, dating back to the 1950s, uses the relative weights of ventral prostate ( VP ) and levator ani muscle ( LA ) of male rats.
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It most often occurs in the middle of the night and lasts from seconds to minutes, an indicator for the differential diagnosis of levator ani syndrome, which presents as pain and aching lasting twenty minutes or longer.
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"In vivo " experiments in castrated rats demonstrated that subcutaneous treatment with bolandione resulted only in a stimulation of the weight of the levator ani muscle, while the prostate and seminal vesicle weights remained completely unaffected.
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Some sources do not consider " pelvic floor " and " pelvic diaphragm " to be identical, with the " diaphragm " consisting of only the levator ani and coccygeus, while the " floor " also includes the perineal membrane and deep perineal pouch.
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Research has determined through experimental rodent studies with estradiol, 16?-LE2, and 8?-VE2 that the positive, protective effects of estrogens on bone formation myogenic protein synthesis, as 8?-VE2 has been found to strongly induce expression of IGF-1 in the rat levator ani muscle.
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The fibers of the levator ani pass downward and backward to the middle line of the floor of the pelvis; the most posterior are inserted into the side of the last two segments of the coccyx; those placed more anteriorly unite with the muscle of the opposite side, in the anococcygeal body.
